📚 Education Sep 23, 2026 · Benjamin Riley

The Penalty Students Pay for Using AI

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The Penalty Students Pay for Using AI
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In 2024, Laurence Holt of the XQ Institute wrote in this publication about “The 5 Percent Problem,” a term that quickly became common parlance within the ed-tech zeitgeist (see “The 5 Percent Problem,” features, Fall 2024). Holt argued that when it comes to measuring the student-learning outcomes of various ed-tech programs, the results often only apply to the 5 percent of students who “used the program as intended. The other 95 percent see minimal gains, if any.”
Holt’s primary focus was on on

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